RECENT ROYAL SHOW

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 11

RECENT ROYAL SHOW

COMPLIMENTARY REMARKS

i " Complimentary references to tho manner in which tiie recent Royal Show at Invercargill had been* managed wore 1 mado by Mr. W. Perry, president of the Royal Agricultural Society, at a .mcet- | ing of the counSil of the society yesterday. Mr. Perry said he considered it tho best conducted Royal Show that had I yet been held in New Zealand, and i clearly showed how thoroughly the arrangements of the directors of the Southland A. and P. Association had been made and carried out. A new standard of Royal Shows had boon created, and ho hoped -that all future Royal t Shows would aim at the high standard set at InvercargilL ' Messrs. J. Linklater, M.P., J. Knight, A. Hunter, W. Howard Booth, and D. M'Gregor also added congratulatory remarks. In the course of his congratulation Mr. W. D. Hunt stated that as he was returning from Invercargill in the train he had entered into conversation with a 'New Zealand farmer who had been showing stock all his life and who had just returned from a trip to Great Britain and America, ' where ho had I visited 26 stock shows, including tho 1 Eoyal Show' in England and tho Highland Show in Scotland. He (Mr. Hunt) hail been extremely' pleasod to hear from his fellow-traveller that the stock parade at "Invercargill'had-been equal to Iho best of any similar parades seen hi the Northern Hemisphere. Mr. A. At. Weir, vice-president of the Southland A. and P. Association, hand-' ed over to tho: cotincilva donation of i £500 to the funds of the society on bo- ( half of his association. He stated that thte Royal Show in Invercargill had been a financial success and that his association had decided 'upon making j | the donation out'of profits made. He stated that ho thought that a basis for future donaftons should bo drawn up, so that A. and P. Associations holding the Royal Show wou,ld have sonys idea ,of what was expected of them. The j holding, of tho Eoyal Show in a town considerably increased the incomo of tho A. and P. Association holding the show, and ho thought that the Royal Agricultural Society should be recomi pensed. 'Ho maintained that much of j tho success was due to tho enthusiasm of Mr A. L. Adamson, show secretary at Invercargill, and his staff, who all had worked hard to make the show a i biiccess.